“A toothbrush, please.”
“What?” I stepped back from the fool. “How about a pencil?”
“Charlie Chaplin never had a pencil.”
A joke couldn’t hurt. “You think he wrote everything by pen?”
He did not even smile. Simply pointed to his upper lip.
I opened the door of my barbershop and saw him out.
Afterword
The mission: to write a 53-word piece about a moustache.
Initially, this had me stumped.
But, there are so many interesting names for the different styles of moustaches – e.g., horseshoe, handlebar and walrus. I found inspiration there.
Photo attribution: thanks to Egor Lyfar on Unsplash.